A:
|
Filmstrips
|
|
Minorities Have Made America Great: The Jews
|
|
Available from Audio-Visual Center with phonograph record. Shows the contributions of Jews to America.
|
|
A Nation of Immigrants
. Audio-Visual Center.
|
|
Discusses America as a Melting Pot and illustrates various immigrant groups. Includes a record.
|
|
Immigrant America
. Social Studies School Service.
|
|
Two parts with record or cassettes. Part I profiles early 20th century immigrant communities. Part II examines contemporary cities.
|
B:
|
Films
|
|
Screen News Digest, Volume 7, Number 3,
America: The Melting Pot
. Audio-Visual Center. Twenty minutes, black and white; portrays impact U.S. has had on immigrants.
|
|
Screen News Digest, Volume 14, Number 6,
The Golden Door
. AudioVisual Center. Thirteen minutes, black and white; traces history of Ellis Island.
|
|
Voyage to America
, Anti-Defamation League. Twelve minutes, black and white, rental; illustrates 350 years of immigration.
|
|
The Inheritance
, Anti-Defamation League. Forty five minutes, black and white, rental; perhaps the most effective film produced about the late 19th and early 20th century migration.
|
C:
|
Recordings and Tapes
|
|
The East Side Story
, Tikva Records. A history of the Lower East Side in words and songs.
|
D:
|
Simulation
|
|
Gateway:
A Simulation of Immigration Issues in Past and Present America
. A four part simulation on problems of immigrants—Ellis Island, Atlantic Crossing, factions—available from Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.
|
E:
|
Family Tree Exercise
|
|
Available from author. Contains sample and directions for completing a family tree class exercise.
|